{"product_id":"9781803090771","title":"Truth\/Untruth","description":"\u003cp\u003eA trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at Calcutta society. Set in Calcutta in the mid-1980s, Truth\/Untruth is a fast-paced thriller built around the death of the pregnant Jamuna—a maid in a newly affluent residential apartment complex—and Arjun, the upwardly mobile businessman who seduced her. Packed with a cast of colorful characters, this novel is a trenchant, darkly humorous, and unsentimental look at the different segments of Calcutta society: from the middle-class culture vultures to the unscrupulous “promoter” class and the domestic helpers and slum goons who form an intrinsic part of the city’s life. All are implicated in a complex web of guilt and bizarre twists and turns. Sex, lies, death—the great modernist themes—run like a thread through this book, exposing societal greed, lust, corruption, and moral hypocrisy with a sardonic tone that spares none. An unusual novel by an author who is otherwise known for her hard-hitting activist-feminist stories, Truth\/Untruth underlines the exploitative vicious cycle that defines urban relations between the haves and have-nots.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991766380779,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":38.45,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781803090771","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}